Bullying

      BRAND NEW

          WAS I

IGNORANCE IS A BLISS

SOMEONE ONCE SAID

WORDLESS INSULTS

THEY KNEW HOW 

FRAGILE I WAS

YET THEY STILL

STEPPED ON THE GLASS

RUNNING LIKE THERE

       WAS NO

      2MORROW

WONDERING WHY?

HOW 2 STOP IT?

MADE ME FALL

DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO

       DESPAIR

MAKE IT ALL FREEZE!

4 WHITE WALLS

& A CUBE OF SUGAR

SWEET AND SOUR

I LIKED IT

SPYING

THROUGH BINOCULARS

I WATCHED THEM

   BLEED

  DETACHED

ROSES FOR THE TEARS

ON YOUR PURPLE CHEEK.

Author's Note

A poem written for the ANti-bullying week contest :)

Reviews

[Japanese Cherry]

amazing job, i enjoyed reading this... and congrats on winning second place ;) good job

[Hush Hush]

hello 2 who ever reads this poem, just wanted to brag dat I got second place in dat contest! Hahaha yeah so dats it, u can now continue on wiv ur life :D

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞Emmett..]

Wooow! I like it! I mean, I don't fully get the figurative language and meaning yet... or maybe I do. Imma try! xD

Okay, the child is new, fragile, naive, and then the bullies come and step all over him/her. They make his problems worse, and so the kid runs, thinking of why they do bad things, how to stop it, making him go down into a dark abyss where he won't receive help and he can't get out.

TIMESKIP!

And then he's in the looney bin (white walls), suggesting that bullying causes kids to suffer depression and other mentally unwell symptoms. ..."cube of sugar" "sweet and sour" means the sweet reality, or... sweet revenge, which can also be sour! Ah-ha! And so he mentions spying on them as he watches them die. "Roses for the tears" can imply that his suffering might have been appeased by their deaths, and "On your purple cheek" can imply that their bruised faces, crying in shame perhaps, is being topped with those roses of the bullied kid's satisfaction of their situation!

SHAZAM! Analysis, done! I love reading ppl's poetry. Even if I might be wrong. This is an awesome piece. I hope you win the contest. ^ w ^